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A Sensitive Ear
They say he is autistic. When his parents first told me that this was what the specialists had determined, I was skeptical. I knew what autism was, and had even been around autistic children before, particularly during a time when I was relief teaching, and spent a period of time in the special education class when one of the teachers had to take extended leave. I was not resistant to the…
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mono no aware
ice cream cones and a baby’s laughter yellow-edged photos and ink faded on the page snowflakes on the window and steam from a coffee mug the scent of your cologne as the alarm screams of dawn Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel…
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Anticipating the Morning After
Anticipating the Morning After
10 November 2016, Hong Kong anticipating the morning after the State of the Union Address to be made by the President-Elect on this morning after the election, I listen to the parent at the next table define protectionism to his child but nothing’s made in America she objects as I await tyres slashed and windscreens smashed like I endured in the good old days of an earlier…
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On Death and Translation
On Death and Translation
In his “Meditation XVII,” John Donne uses translation as a metaphor for death – perhaps a sentiment that hits a bit too close to the mark for many working translators. Donne writes, “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be translated; God employs several…
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Strong Fences
each brick laid a fish at Spring Festival tonic soup after surgery duty-free smokes from overseas champagne at news of a promotion scarlet eggs after the first month a hong bao handed at a wedding a small loan when times are tight the mortar spread a cat fed while she’s away a hand given on English homework an untiring ear when the hour…
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Calling all linguists and polyglots – Poet and writer Shelly Bryant will bring her translating expertise to Words Go Round with her 101 workshop on translation. Read on to learn more about her favourite reads and her approach to the art of translation. Head to our website for WGR bookings and more information!
Song of Dunhuang
translated from the Ming Dynasty poem by Yang Sheng
the sound of horns pierces through plum blossoms
the clouds in the distant west catch the rosy twilight
white geese guard the pass on the purple autumn breeze
the sun’s light passes away over golden sands
the messenger’s banner raised signaling his trust
the chieftain’s consort takes up her pipa
in his dreams he returns to the watchtower
waking,…
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9 August 2013
burnt red on white after a National Day hike on our multiethnic multiracial isle it is my piebald flesh that marks me as other though draped in the same dual tones of the flag splayed between two Chinooks watching over the path as we trekked
Shelly Bryantdivides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a teacher, writer, researcher, and translator. She is the…
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